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However, this is what makes Zhang Zhun the most angry. Wang Shixin spoke in such a tone, obviously because his backstage and Tartar also had something to do with it. Otherwise, how can a thousand households recommend others to be a thousand households? Does he have what it takes? Even Zhao Yinying, the commander of Ao Shanwei, does not have such power! An official at a higher level than Zhao Yinying, what is that? That's the military department! Even the military department has returned to protect these Tartars, what hope does the Ming Dynasty have?

This is the first time that Zhang Zhun has discovered that behind Wang Shixin, there is such a huge power hidden. What makes Zhang Zhun even more angry is that the Tartars have penetrated into the nerve center of the Ming Dynasty! Perhaps, these people have already secretly communicated with the Tartars, and just waiting for the Tartars to enter the customs, they will raise their hands and surrender! In fact, when the Qing army entered the customs in a big way, there were countless Ming Dynasty officials who looked down on the wind!

Purely from the perspective of interests, Zhang Zhun should agree to Wang Shixin's conditions, and take Fushan City without blood. The head of thirteen tartars can be exchanged for a thousand taels of silver. However, emotionally speaking, Zhang Zhun will never hand over any Tartar to them!

He won't use Tartar in exchange for benefits!

Because they don't deserve it!

Liu Yiping saw that Zhang Zhun was silent, thinking that Zhang Zhun was moved, and further said: "Lord Baihu, look at this matter...... What are we living in the world? Isn't it glory and wealth? As long as the adults are willing to hand over these tartars, and with the care of the adults above, this glory and wealth is not easy to capture......"

Zhang Zhun Huoran stood up and shouted coldly: "Shut up!" ”

Liu Yiping was startled and hurriedly shut up.

Zhang Zhun looked at him with shining eyes, and said in a deep voice: "You go back!" ”

Liu Yiping was stunned again.

That's the end of it?

Don't put a good future, is this quasi a fool?

Suddenly, there was an impassioned roar outside:

"Kill the Tartars!"

"Kill the Tartars!"

"Kill the Tartars!"

It was the angry villagers of Maojiatun who were shouting slogans, which shook the four fields and resounded in the sky.

Liu Yiping's face changed greatly, and his whole body couldn't help trembling, he felt that his life seemed to be in danger. As long as Zhang Zhun makes a movement, a gesture, or even, just a look, someone will come in and drag him out and chop him up.

Zhang Zhun's mood gradually returned to calm, and he smiled slightly at the other party, he gestured to Liu Yiping to listen to the angry roar from outside, and said word by word: "This is the answer I gave you." You go back and tell Wang Shixin that everything he wants is here with me. I won't give it to him. ”

Liu Yiping is like an ant on a hot pot, and he can't say a word. The louder the voice outside, the more he felt his body tremble. As for what Zhang Zhun said just now, he basically didn't hear it clearly.

Zhang Zhun frowned and said, "Mr. Liu? ”

Liu Yiping reacted and subconsciously said: "Adult, the villain is just a talker, a talker......"

Zhang Zhun nodded and said slowly, "I know." ”

Clap your hands.

Li Jiaxi came in.

Zhang Zhun said: "Send this gentleman away, he is just a talker." ”

Li Jiaxi said expressionlessly: "Let's go!" ”

Liu Yiping was amnesty, and hurriedly followed Li Jiaxi away.

As soon as I went out of the door, I saw an angry crowd, blocked by three layers inside and three layers outside, where is there any way out? The crowd was either brandishing fists, or firewood knives, wooden sticks, or harpoons...... Either of them can turn him into powder.

Li Jiaxi waved his hand and said loudly: "The captain said, he is a talker." ”

The angry crowd slowly moved out of the way.

Liu Yiping was shocked and frightened, and left in a hurry.

The negotiation with Wang Shixin ended like this.

As for what kind of reaction Wang Shixin will have, Zhang Zhun doesn't care and doesn't want to know. There's no need for that. There are three more days, the eighth day of the fifth month, which is the date of his death. Even if Ao Shanwei immediately mobilized troops and horses to come to the rescue of Fushan City, it was already too late. Everyone knows the offensive efficiency of officers and soldiers, let alone the rotten guards?

………………

Zhang Zhun calmed down his emotions and clapped his hands vigorously.

Zou Ming added: "Captain, what are your orders?" ”

Zhang Zhun smiled and said, "Please come over!" I have a lot of time now! ”

Zou Mingjia turned around and went.

Soon, Li Fenglai, Yin Gensheng, and Zou Huoming came.

The main purpose of their arrival was to discuss with Zhang Zhun about the construction of weapons. To be precise, it is to discuss the matter of iron smelting. In addition to equipping the escort with triangular thorns, Zhang Zhun also had to equip the escort with a large number of sophisticated spears, and even tried to equip the escort with armor, and even wanted to build muskets, and even wanted to imitate artillery. He was going to arm the convoy from head to toe and to the teeth.

With all kinds of equipment, not to mention the construction process for the time being, the iron materials that need to be consumed alone are too much. Buying from the outside, the price is very expensive, a pound of pig iron is sold for three dollars of silver, it is simply a money grab, and the quantity cannot meet the needs of the escort at all. After discussing it, everyone felt that only by making iron by themselves could they fundamentally solve the problem.

There will not be much suspense in conquering Fushan City, the key is how to resist the counterattack of more officers and troops. In order to make the escort stronger, it must need more iron. At that time, the officers and soldiers will blockade the front line of Jimo County, and iron materials and the like will definitely not be able to be transported in. Therefore, Zhang Zhun made up his mind to make iron by himself.

In the past few days in Maojiatun, Zhang Zhun found that Laoshan has coal, iron ore, and a large amount of limestone, whether it is used to make iron, steel, cement, or glass. Cement and glass will be talked about later, and now what will be put on the horse is ironmaking.

"Have you been to Laoshan to see it?" Zhang Zhun asked.

"I've seen it, both iron ore and coal are available, and there is no problem with raw materials." Yoon Geun-sung replied.

"If there is no accident, in half a month, we will be able to smelt the first batch of pig iron, about 500 catties. If the furnace continues to expand, or if the number of furnaces increases, the output of pig iron will further expand. Zou Huoming said affirmatively.

Zhang Zhun looked at the three of them very happily, and said in a deep voice: "This matter, I will ask the three uncles and uncles in the future." If you have any problems, you can come to me, and we will discuss and solve them together. I have some ideas here, I don't know if they will be useful to you, even if it is to throw bricks and stones. ”

Li Fenglai and the others all said: "Yulin, you say, let's all listen!" ”

Zhang Zhun was not polite, and said it to himself.

Zhang Zhun didn't know much about steelmaking and ironmaking, what blast furnaces, open-hearth furnaces, converters, coke, and blowers were all names he had heard of, and he didn't know what the real structure and principle were. However, after all, he is a figure from 400 years later, and his insights are incomparable to those of the three. Although he did not know how to make steel, he knew what kind of steel was best, and what kind of steel was needed for what weapons.

Knives, for example, are very important weapons. The main weapon of the [***] team has always been the knife. Tang knife, Miao knife, scimitar, waist knife, embroidered spring knife, Yanling knife, machete, Mo knife, three-pointed two-edged knife...... There are dozens, if not hundreds, of the names of knives alone. Among them, most of the knives are the essence of actual combat training. It is said which knife is most suitable for the battlefield, in fact, there is no conclusion, everything depends on the actual situation.

Jin Yiwei wanted to look good, and chose an embroidered spring knife; The 29th Route Army wanted to fight with the devil with bayonets, and chose machetes; The Tang army wanted to deal with the enemy's cavalry, and chose Modao; Qi Jiguang felt that Xiao Yueben's knife was not easy to deal with, so he moved out the Miao knife; The knives of the cavalry and the knives of the infantry are completely different...... There are so many things that are ever-changing, and nothing is fixed.

The only constant is not the type of weapon, but the quality of the weapon.

Some people may say that the higher the quality of the weapon, the better!

Such a statement cannot be said to be unreasonable.

Later generations who have studied ancient swords may know three kinds of knives: one is a Damascus knife, one is a Malay knife, and the other is a Benben knife. According to the test results of some, these three knives claim to be the best quality and sharpest in the world. Among the three kinds of knives, there is no shadow of the Chinese knife, and even the famous Tang knife was not selected, but the small knife was selected.

In fact, this cannot be blamed on the incompetence of the Chinese knife, but the development direction of the Chinese knife is different. Whether it is a Damascus knife, a Malay knife, or a knife, the output is very small. They are looking for quality, often at the expense of it. Chinese knives, on the other hand, are more focused on the latter in terms of quality and quantity, and are also very sensitive to cost. Because, the number of [***] teams in our country is too much.

The Warring States period of this book gives people the illusion that it is vigorous, and the stars shine, what Oda Nobunaga, what Toyotomi Hideyoshi, seems to be a great character, in fact, in our China, at most it is a prefect. At the height of Oda Nobunaga's heyday, the army was only about 50,000 people. When Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified the Ming Dynasty, the number of troops was only two or three hundred thousand, which was less than the number of two or three military towns in the Ming Dynasty. It is said that Ben raised the strength of a country to attack North Korea, but was defeated by tens of thousands of Ming troops, and a bunch of so-called famous generals almost couldn't even go back to their own country.

It can be seen that there is no market for low-yield, high-cost weapons such as Damascus knives, Malay knives, and Yueben knives that want to develop Damascus knives, Malay knives, and Yueben knives at any cost on the land of China. What China needs is weapons that are large, high-quality, and cheap. Therefore, there will be the emergence of the steel wrapping method and the steel clamping method. In fact, the core of these so-called "steels" is iron.

But if you don't want quality at all, that's not going to work either. Many of the weapons and equipment of the Ming army are very advanced, such as three-eyed guns, five-eyed guns, seven-star guns, and even ten-eyed guns. The point is that these weapons are only quantitative, not qualitative. Of the 100 firearms, there may only be 34 that can really be fired. This kind of firecracker is not as good as a mace!

It can be seen that it is not easy to strike a balance between quantity and quality. Zhang Zhun invited Li Feng and a few of them here today to discuss the direction of the future development of the escort force's weapons. What Zhang Zhun meant was that there was no need to pursue weapons as sharp as Damascus knives, nor as exquisite as Malay knives, nor as delicate as Malay knives. However, a certain quality must be guaranteed.

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